“Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?” KnowsLifePersonsEnoughFacesFlowerRoseHungryBitterHipsStemDaisiesDandelionsViolaPansiesMarigolds Book:The Orphan Master's Son Source: The Orphan Master's Son
“Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.” WorldYearsPersonsBookCharacterNovelImagineWrittenSixtySingle Person Author:Adam Johnson
“In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.” PeoplePersonsCharacterStoriesJobsAmericaDesireMotivationGrowsFictionConflictOvercomingObstaclesIndividualismDefiningDefining Ourselves Author:Adam Johnson
“Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.” IfsMenPersonsImportantStatesStoriesWiseCallingConflictPianoFarmersBeing WiseFactualMaestroVirtuoso Author:Adam Johnson
“"A name isn't a person." Ga said. "Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you."” HeartPersonsSaidMatterRememberFacesNamesAliveWhere You AreAlways With You Author:Adam Johnson
